Ransomware Skyrockets 167X in One Year

Ransomware Skyrockets 167X in One YearThe top threat of 2016, ransomware, increased by more than 167 times year-over-year—from 4 million attack attempts in 2015 to a whopping 638 million.According to SonicWall’s 2017 Annual Threat Report, ransomware was the payload of choice for malicious email campaigns and exploit kits last year. There are a few reasons for this: For one, the rise of ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) made the code significantly easier to obtain and deploy. The unprece